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Windows 8.1 emerges as the performance winner after six generations of the OS are pitted against each other
By Hassam Nasir published
More fuel for the Windows 11 hate train.

Microsoft silently kills Windows and Office phone activation and forces online activation with a Microsoft account
By Hassam Nasir published
Nothing like the good ol' days.

Linux's contemporary filesystem mount API went without documentation for six years
By Bruno Ferreira published
Linux's contemporary filesystem mount API has been missing documentation since 2019,

Recovered Unix v4 tape quickly yields a usable operating system
By Bruno Ferreira published
Nostalgia addicts can now get their Unix v4 fix in a browser

Cinebench 2026 out and ready to hammer CPUs and graphics cards six times as hard
By Bruno Ferreira published
Cinebench 2026 out and ready to hammer CPUs and graphics cards six times as hard

Google is allowing users to change their Gmail address, per official Google support doc
By Hassam Nasir published
A long-awaited feature.

Microsoft promises to nearly double Windows storage performance after forcing slow software-accelerated BitLocker on Windows
By Kunal Khullar published
The new BitLocker implementation offloads encryption and decryption to dedicated crypto engines on supported SoCs, delivering faster storage performance and reduced CPU usage.

52 years later, only known copy of Unix v4 recovered from randomly found tape, now up and running on a system
By Bruno Ferreira published
The only known complete copy of Unix v4 has been recovered from a tape found at the University of Utah.
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